pipelines
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West Coast Rail Sabotage
Following the approval of the PRGT in June, dozens of track circuits throughout BC have been shorted, disconnected, or otherwise tampered with. The vast majority of track circuits operate on direct current (DC) and are relatively easy to induce a fail state. The quickest and most discreet method has proven to be the simple snipping…
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McElhanney trucks burned in Smithers
On August 10th at around 4am two trucks belonging to McElhanney were burned in Smithers, BC. McElhanney provides consulting services to the PRGT project. You can read more about their involvement in Against Extractivism: PRGT and its Actor and Arson attack in Terrace BC
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Water, Land, and Freedom: My Journey Through a Decade of Pipeline Resistance on the Yintah and Beyond
Reproduced from a Jan 17, 2025 submission to It’s Going Down by Amplifier Films. Franklin Lopez looks back on grassroots movement media and the creation of the documentary film, Yintah. In the summer of 2011, I was exhausted—physically, mentally, creatively. I’d just finished hauling my feature film, END:CIV, across North America, and when I got…
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Poster: Call to Action Against the PRGT Pipeline
Reproduced from an anonymous submission to MTL Counter-Info from Jan 18, 2025. This poster uses text previously published to BC Counter-Info on Nov 1st, 2024.
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Tree spiking targeting PRGT pipeline
We spiked thousands of trees along the PRGT pipeline right of way between Fort Saint James and New Aiyansh. We pre-drilled holes in trees and then pounded 6” spikes into the trees. Its up to each of us to combat this project, we hope this effort poses one more obstacle.
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Call to action against the PRGT pipeline
As of August 2024, construction work has started on the the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline. The project is owned by Western LNG and the Nisgaa Nation, the latter which has allowed for construction to start on their land first, the rural Nass river valley that sits adjacent to the pacific ocean. State and…